This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Russell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oZEBAIB/3838 Message Board Post: >From the History of Peoria County, Illinois. Johnson & Company. 1880: "RUSSELL, JOHN H. grocer, P.O. Princeville, was born in Wayne Co, Ohio, in 1829, and in 1852 married Miss Mary Albertson, who was born in 1830, by whom he has had 5 children, 4 of them now living. Mr. Russell removed from his native State to Indiana in 1850, came to Peoria Co., settling in Princeville in 1854; engaged in the manufacture of wagons during the ten years between 1858 and '68, and from the latter date until the present has carried on the business of grocer, keeping a large and attractive stock of goods. Mr. Russell and his family are active members of the M.E. Church." John H. Russell and Mary White Albertson are my gr-great grandparents.